Late this last February the Federal Communications Commission passed sweeping net neutrality regulations to ensure that internet service providers can’t block or throttle anyone’s internet traffic. So naturally it was only a matter of time before a telecom-financed Republican and her cronies introduced legislation against the FCC’s ruling.

Meet Marsha Blackburn, she’s a Tennessee Republican in the House of Representatives who authored the pleasant sounding “Internet Freedom Act”. All the two-page legislation sets out to do is “prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications service and from imposing certain regulations on providers of such service.”

If you’ll recall, the FCC’s reclassifying of internet access as a telecommunications service basically means that Verizon, AT&T and other service providers have to treat all information moving through their network as the same, the same way that they treat phone calls — they don’t prefer that some calls reach you and others don’t. They’re legally required to treat all calls as the same and to give you access to each and every one as long as you pay your bill.

The publication Ars Technicapoints out that Blackburn’s donors include an AT&T political action committee that gave her $25,000, a Comcast and cable industry PAC that gave her $20,000 each, and Verizon who put $15,000 into her kitty.